dump

Significat (English)

Noun

1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
4. An act of dumping, or its result.
5. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
6. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
7. (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
8. (slang) An act of defecation; a defecating.
9. A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
10. Absence of mind; reverie.
11. A pile of ore or rock.
12. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
13. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
14. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
15. A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

Verb

1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
2. To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
3. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
4. To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
5. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
6. (informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
7. (obsolete) To knock heavily; to stump.
8. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
9. To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
10. Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

Synonyms

tip

garbage dump

pour out

get rid of

pour

landfill

discard

unload

throw away

rubbish dump

drop

ditch

abandon

trash dump

put

underprice

coldcock

empty

shit

💩

dispose

throw down

spill

discharge

refuse dump

disburden

awkward

burden with

cast aside

clumsy

deck

decline

disallow

disavow

dismiss

dispose of

draft

drain

drop off

dull

dumping ground

dumpsite

empty out

fill

fire

🔥

flood

floor

foolish

jettison

jilt

knock down

overflow

overturn

plunge

print

proof

rebut

refuse

refute

reject

relay

repress

repulse

resend

scatter

shed

shun

silly

spurn

stupid

tip over

turn over

unburden

unpack

withhold

dump pit

pour off

waste-yard

wasteyard

impose upon

inventory

release commodity

release products

kick out

uncontrolled dump

knock over

cut

leave

leave alone

leave behind

log

memory dump

midden

moisten

off-balance

muckheap

overthrow

muckhill

pad

park

🏞️

plump

tump over

poop

💩

crap

come down

go number 2

tip

provision

push down

clout

put down

carrier ring

filler ring

chuck

joint-packing

change dump

insertion ring

remove

tilting motion

do a crap

heavy selling

resign

chop down

rubbish heap

shunt off

scuttle

sell off

send back

set down

shack

shanty

insert ring

cesspool

packing collar

annular packing

slum

bring down

spill out

filling-in ring

stock

stockpile

stockroom

stock room

storage

store

storehouse

strike down

cushion ring

submit

sump

break

throw out

throw over

throw up

thud

bowl over

sliding plate ring

dump down

leave someone in the lurch

topple

toss out

transfuse

trash

trash can

bid

tumble

turn

turn down

memory transfer

hicksville

betray

undersell

bank

🏦

take a dump

unseat

upset

vomit

waive

walk out

warehouse

washer

wastebasket

🗑️

wet

have crap

boot out

break camp

pinch a loaf

flop down

foreswear

drop a deuce

power cut

rubbish tip

scotch

depot

down

download

scrap-heap

sell cheaply

drench

depository

slag heap

take a crap

dumping

bag

dumping site

transfer to

dustbin

eject

deposit

trash heap

entrepot

fall

fall away

fall back

fall down

fall off

fall out

fell

file

trash pile

dump site

laystall

core dump

sell cheap

forsake

fund

garbage can

deep-six

garbage heap

garner

gasket

cut down

go down

grommet

hovel

impeach

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dʌmp/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: dumpen

Cognate with danès: dumpe

Cognate with escocès: dump

Cognate with noruec: dump

Cognate with neerlandès: dompen

In summary

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.